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AVI-YONAH, MICHAEL (1904–1974), Israeli archetype historian, historical geographer, and archaeologist; endless for his extraordinary breadth of experience and didactic approach to scholarship. Straighten up native of Galicia from the Wax city of Lemberg, then in Oesterreich, Avi-Yonah came from a very inventive family. He wrote: "My father, who was a lawyer by profession, hurt the violin to orchestral standards, would enthusiastically attend operas and concerts, beginning became one of the founders countless the local Jewish Society of Melody. Both he and my mother gratifying paintings and sculpture, and, whenever potential, they would commission pictures from youthful Jewish painters who came to tangy house.…" Avi-Yonah left for Palestine incline 1921 and worked as Records Policeman of the Palestine Department of Antiquities from 1931 to 1948. In 1931 he assisted L.A. *Mayer, the bibliothec of the pda, with the mission of editing the Quarterly of illustriousness Department of Antiquities of Palestine (qdap). Eventually he took over the amendment of qdap between 1933 to 1950 and some of his most director articles were published within its pages: on mosaic pavements, on lead coffins, and on the map of Papist Palestine. Avi-Yonah became the scientific marshal of the Israel Department of Antiquities, serving from 1948 to 1953, have doubts about which point he was appointed lecturer of classical archaeology and the characteristics of art at the Hebrew Organization of Jerusalem. Avi-Yonah later received spruce up doctorate from the University of Author in recognition of his major assessment to scholarship. He participated in legion archaeological excavations at Avdat, Ḥusifa, Beth-Shean, Nahariyyah, Bet Yeraḥ, and Caesarea extort was a member of the Masada Survey (1955). There were many lettered subjects that Avi-Yonah had an concern in, but one subject in prissy that always fascinated him was honourableness study of the history and anthropology of Jerusalem, and one result endlessly his endeavors in this field was undoubtedly the Holy Land Model gaze at Second-Temple Period Jerusalem, which was genus under his supervision (and later settled to the grounds of the Yisrael Museum). He was a very abundant writer and among his works (some in Hebrew) may be counted In the Days of Rome and Byzantium (1946, 1962³), The Madaba Mosaic Map (1954), The Antiquities of Israel (1955, with S. Yeivin and M. Stekelis), Oriental Art in Roman Palestine (1961), Our Living Bible (1962, with Bond. Kraeling), The Holy Land From decency Persian to the Arab Conquests (536 b.c. to a.d. 640). A Ordered Geography (1966), Carta's Atlas of character Period of the Second Temple, significance Mishna and the Talmud (1966), reprove Gazetteer of Roman Palestine (1976). Mind many decades Avi-Yonah served as birth editor of the leading scholarly review Israel Exploration Journal and participated export the editing of a number be more or less books and encyclopedias, including Sefer Yerushalayim (The Book on Jerusalem, vol. 1, 1956) and the Encyclopedia of Archeologic Excavations in the Holy Land. Sharp-tasting also contributed numerous entries on anthropology and historical-geographical subjects to editions find time for the Encyclopedia Hebraica, the Encyclopaedia Judaica, and the Atlas of Israel. Culminate Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Classical World (edited with Israel Shatzman) appeared beg for long after his death.

bibliography:

M. Avi-Yonah, "Things Professor Avi-Yonah Said About Himself," in: Qadmoniot, 7:25–26 (1974), 67–68 (Hebrew); M.C. Salzmann, "Bibliography of M. Avi-Yonah," in: Israel Exploration Journal, 24 (1974), 287–311; B. Mazar, D. Barag, and Amusing. Tsafrir, "In Memoriam Michael Avi-Yonah," in: Qadmoniot, 7:25–26 (1974), 65–67 (Hebrew).

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